1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORRER. 
the same as the field 'potatoesfl one 
foot apart in the drill and covered 
four inches deep. The ground was not 
manured, but phosphate at the rate of 
800 pounds to the acre was used at the 
time of planting. They were not hilled, 
but were well cultivated. The growth 
of tops was strong and healthy. They 
were dug September 3, and weighed six 
pounds. There were 11 potatoes of mar¬ 
ketable size and one small one. The larg¬ 
est potato weighed IJ^ pound, and they 
were all of good shape. The yield was 
at the rate of 500 bushels to the acre. 
The drought in his vicinity has been se¬ 
vere, and the yield of potatoes light. 
That is an excellent report. We hope 
all may be as good. 
Our friend says that “phosphate at the 
rate of 800 pounds to the acre was used.” 
But our readers will be no wiser than 
before as to what fertilizer was used to 
give so large a yield when the “ yield of 
potatoes in the vicinity was light.” We 
allude to the fact merely to show how 
important it is that the word “phos¬ 
phate ” should never be used as a generic 
name for fertilizers. 
Some allusion has already been made 
to the Alpha (Japan) chestnut. A single 
plant was set out in the Rural Grounds 
last April; a plant less than three feet 
high that bore male catkins. Probably 
it will fruit next year, as it has made a 
healthy growth. 
It is claimed that this is “ the earliest 
hnovm chestnut ” ; that it is “ an upright 
grower,” and that it “comes to bearing 
at three years old” and “is very pro 
ductive.” It is further claimed that the 
“ nuts are four inches around, and two 
to three to a burr,” and that they ripen 
September 10 to 12, without frost.” 
On September 11, the Rural Grounds 
received a box containing four burrs. 
The burrs contained 12 chestnuts, the 
average circumference being nearly four 
inches. They were fully ripe. The quality 
was not as good as the Paragon, but fair, 
if the skins were first removed. It would 
seem that if these chestnuts were sent 
to market so early, they would command 
a high price. 
Mr. Parry, of Parry, N. J., writes : 
“ I mail you to-day (September 10) a 
cluster of ‘ Alpha ’ Japan-grafted chest¬ 
nuts, a variety which I consider valu¬ 
able, owing to its large size, early ripen¬ 
ing, and great productiveness. This va¬ 
riety usually ripens about September 10 
to 12, but I have gathered ripe ones this 
season on September 6, and the crop is 
now all off at this writing.” 
What farm animals relish tomatoes ? 
Or, like human beings, is it needful that 
they cultivate a taste for the big berry ? 
The writer handed a fully ripe tomato to 
a horse a few days since. He bit in two 
directly, then lapped it a trifle, and then 
declined to touch it. 
A BLESSED rain-fall a few days previ¬ 
ously enabled us to sow the two acres to 
Crimson clover September 11, using 15 
pounds per acre. The field, plowed 
August 1, was harrowed twice before 
sowing and once after with an Acme. 
As we write (September 14) a gentle, 
steady rain is falling, so that the seed 
will get a favorable start. It is thought 
that September 11 is too late to sow this 
clover so far north. The trial will be of 
some value as showing whether this is so 
or not. 
We have received the following note 
from W. Atlee Burpee & Co., as to the 
New Early Black Lima introduced by 
that house : “ Allusion, under Ruralisms, 
is made to the New Early Black Lima as 
introduced by our house. We have never 
DO YOU KNO^ 
that the lowest rates to all points West 
are obtained via the Nickel Plate Road ? 
The shortest line between Buffalo and 
Chicago. Palace Buffet sleeping cars. 
East trains. Inquire of nearest Ticket 
Agent, or address P. J. Moore, Gen’l Agt., 
23 Exchange Street, Buffalo, N.Y.— Adv. 
6 i 0 
claimed that the Black Lima was as 
good for the table as the larger green 
seeded varieties after they come to mar¬ 
ket, but we do claim that it is most de¬ 
sirable from the fact that it is fully two 
weeks ahead of all other early varieties 
of Lima beans. Not only is it the earli¬ 
est, but it is one of the most prolific and 
gives the longest season of any bean we 
have ever grown at Fordhook Farm. 
While, of course, we know that in quality 
the Large Lima is to be preferred, yet 
its earliness and its continuing to bear so 
late, certainly make it a desirable bean 
for any gardener.” 
We have never raised the green seeded 
Pole Sieva. In what respect does it dif¬ 
fer from the Black Lima except in color ? 
Our friend T. Greiner who has studied 
potato culture and all its problems as 
thoroughly as any one, perhaps, regards 
our “Caution” against purchasing Car¬ 
man No. 1 seed potatoes which have been 
grown from sprouts forced under glass, 
as all nonsense. Our friend is doubtless 
aware that many experiments have been 
made, to determine which seed would 
yield the larger crop, sound potatoes or 
those more or less sprouted. The re¬ 
sults, in so far as we know, were always 
in favor of the sound seed. There is no 
surer way of killing any plant than by 
destroying its early growth. The plant 
may easily stand the removal of the first 
growth, but the second is less strong. 
If this be removed, the third will be more 
feeble until at last the plant is enfeebled 
unto death. 
The first sprout that a potato makes 
under glass may grow into as thrifty a 
plant which may give as large a yield as 
one grown in the open ground from 
unsprouted seed, though we doubt it. 
How about the second sprout—the second 
effort of the plant to live ? How about 
the third ? And how about the last ? 
Does our friend contend that the last 
sprout that the tuber has the life to 
make, will give us “seed” potatoes as 
strong and healthy as those grown in the 
garden or field in the usual way ? Prom 
which lot would our friend choose to 
select his “seed” for another year, if he 
were entered in a contest for a great 
yield ? 
The R. N.-Y. would gladly hear from 
those of its readers qualified to throw 
light upon the question by their own 
experience. 
Meanwhile, we repeat our “ Caution ” 
to avoid seed potatoes grown from sprouts 
forced under glass. 
We copy the following exceedingly in¬ 
teresting, but profoundly inexplicable 
results from Mr. Greiner’s article which 
appeared in the Country Gentleman of 
September 13 : “ Now I will boldly con¬ 
fess that I am one of those who have this 
year propagated the Carman No. 1 under 
glass by the sprouting method. I am 
proud of it, too. My patches grown from 
single sprouts are the best potatoes I 
have this year. The plants have long 
since covered the ground with a heavy 
growth of foliage, and while all my other 
potatoes (mostly grown from whole 
tubers) have nearly given up the un¬ 
equal struggle against heat, drought and 
the macrosporium bJght (or leaf spot 
disease), which always seems to be an 
accompaniment to heat and drought, the 
Carman plants are holding out better 
than any of the rest, and the last-planted 
ones (some from a secondary crop of 
sprouts and others from seemingly ex¬ 
hausted eyes) are almost entirely free 
from blight, the only ones now expected 
to survive the drought, and, in case we 
have rain before many weeks, to give a 
heavy crop of tubers. I had to-day one 
of the tubers grown from single sprout 
baked in the oven, and found it excellent. 
The tubers are as perfect as one can ex¬ 
pect this year from any other variety, 
and I have not t ie least fear of losing 
any of them by soft rot. I will further 
say that any warning against my Carman 
seed potatoes will be entirely super flucus 
I shall keep mine for seed, and will noi 
have one tuber to sell.” 
Abstracts. 
-Youth’s Companion: “You raise 
an enormous lot of tomatoes, John!” 
said the city dweller. “ What in the 
world do you do with them ? ” “ Why,” 
said Mr. Perry, “ we eat as many as we 
can, and what we can’t eat we can.” 
-Garden and Forest : “ In a late 
number of the Revue Horticole, Monsieur 
Edouard Andr6 figures and describes a 
new variety of the common lilac, which 
has been named Cham8ethyrsus. It is 
the well-known habit of Syringa vul¬ 
garis to send up suckers, but in this 
variety, each of the young shoots bears 
a truss of flowers at its extremity as it 
issues from the ground, so that it looks 
as if a flowering branch of lilac had been 
cut off and thrust into the ground. This 
variety is to be sent out by Machet & 
Josen, Chalons” 
-A. W. Pierson in American Agri¬ 
culturist: “ yince the propagation of 
the popular scare as to ‘poisoned grapes,’ 
it will be difficult to induce skittish peo¬ 
ple to buy and eat them, no matter how 
well the fruit may be washed. This scare 
is one cause of the low price of grapes. 
At the present rates in our fruit markets, 
it will not pay to be at the cost of spray¬ 
ing our grapes and then at the trouble 
of washing them. Whoever grows grapes 
for profit must grow only such sorts as 
need no spraying.” 
If ron name Thb Rubai. Nbw-Yobkbb to our 
adyertlaers, you may be pretty anre of prompt 
repllea and right treatment 
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